EU approves Orwellian 'meme ban' law that will result in internet censorship.
Article 13, the EU's Orwellian law that will censor and limit the Internet's freedom of speech and expression in the name of “copyright material” has been approved by the European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs. The law would require FB. Goggle Twitter and all other websites to install sysytem that will censor, delete and remove any material which is deemed to have “copyright issues”, this of course refers to internet memes, but also videos gifs etc... etc...
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New EU law might result in banning memes and 'kill the internet'.
A new EU law could change the online world forever by effectively banning memes, remixes and other content which incorporate copyrighted material. The rules are contained in Article 13 of the Copyright Directive and are controversial because they demand platforms ‘take measures to ensure the functioning of agreements concluded with rights-holders for the use of their works’, meaning that large-scale censorship would be the only way of enforcing the law.
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Merkel knowingly allowed extremists and suspected terrorists asylum in Germany.
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